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Chapel at Plaka, built into the white pumice tuff from the 1613 BC Minoan eruption. (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer)

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Acid water can be heard bubbling beneath the surface in one of the springs at Dallol hydrothermal field, Ethiopia. (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer)

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Aerial view of salt deposits and a large acid pond near Assale salt lake and Dallol (Photo: Stefan Tommasini)

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The most beautiful lava dome of Methana: Kosona lava dome. (Photo: Tobias Schorr)

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Pumice quarry on Lipari island, Italy (Photo: Janka)

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ErtaAleMondlicht.jpg (Photo: Reinhard Radke)

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Mayon volcano mirrored in a flooded rice field (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer)

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The lava lake in Benbow crater seen from the lower terrace (July 2018, Ambrym, Vanuatu) (Photo: Yashmin Chebli)

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Liquid lava oozing out from underneath a recently cooled crust (Photo: Ingrid Smet)

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Ash eruption from the Santiaguito lava dome. Bluish flames around the circular perimeter of the active dome, corresponding to the outline of the vent, are visible. (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer)

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View on the castle from Marina corta harbour, Lipari island, Italy (Photo: Janka)

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Sun set over a large acid hydrothermal pond and salt deposits near Dallol and Assale salt lake (Photo: Stefan Tommasini)

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Small pyroclastic flow from Krakatau (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer)

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The active vents inside Benbow crater surrounded by circular crater walls. (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer)

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Eruption column of a powerful vulcanian explosion on the afternoon of 27 Sep. (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer)

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View of the active south pit with a little lava fountain (Benbow volcano, Ambrym, Vanuatu) (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer)

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Aerial view of part of the colourful Dallol hydrothermal mineralisations, hot springs and salt deposits (Photo: Stefan Tommasini)

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Marum lava lake July 2014 (Photo: Yashmin Chebli)

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Red scoria layers from lava fountains during the violent 1866 Mt Tarawera eruption in New Zealand (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer)

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Our expedition leader Yashmin 25 m above the lava lake in Benbow crater (July 2018, Ambrym, Vanuatu) (Photo: Yashmin Chebli)

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Lava fall (Eyjafjallajökull volcano April 2010) (Photo: Henk Bisschop)

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Gas rising up and exploding through the lava lake's surface creates lots of spattering at the edge of the lake (south crater inside Erta Ale's summit caldera) (Photo: Stefan Tommasini)

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Descending from Vulcano in the evening, Eolian Islands, Italy (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer)

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Night time red glow inside one of the small active vents around the south crater of Erta Ale's summit caldera (Photo: Stefan Tommasini)

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23 Feb early dawn: during the night, the lava flow activity seemed to have increased; at times, the flows are incandescent over their whole length. View is from the south. (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer)

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The pseudo-crater of Choni lava dome on Methana. (Photo: Tobias Schorr)

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Eruption from Benbow's crater at night (Photo: Ralf Knauer)

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The lava glow from Benbow (Ambrym, Vanuatu) is so intense that the cloud above the crater is illuminated. (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer)

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The layers of the scoria cone are build up of black lava droplets with green olivine crystals, the latter being heavier than the former and hence getting left behind and accumulated during wind and water action (Photo: Ingrid Smet)

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Vesuvius volcano aerial (June 2017) (Photo: Martin Rietze) [info]
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People observing the first fissure at Fimmvörðuháls (Eyjafjallajökull volcano April 2010) (Photo: Henk Bisschop)

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The lava passing the break-in-slope on 9 Aug evening. (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer)

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Lava fountains at Fimmvörðuháls (Eyjafjallajökull volcano eruption April 2010) (Photo: Henk Bisschop)

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Marum lava lake / Yashmin CHEBLI 2014 (Photo: Yashmin Chebli)

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A small fountain starts by disrupting the crust along a weak rift on the thin crust of the lava lake. (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer)

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Orange water, Anak Krakatau western shore (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer)

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Yellow-white salt deposits at the edge of a green acid pond in Dallol (Photo: Stefan Tommasini)

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So far there is no other hydrothermal site known with such intense colours and activity as Dallol (Photo: Anastasia)

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Weathered lava surface (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer)

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Lava flowing into the sea from Kilauea volcano, Hawaii (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer)

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The Tengger caldera in the morning (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer)

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Evening at the camp inside the Ambrym caldera (Vanuatu) (Photo: Yashmin Chebli)

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Lava fountain from the lava lake in Benbow crater seen from the lower terrace (July 2018, Ambrym, Vanuatu) (Photo: Yashmin Chebli)

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It takes no longer than 9 months for plants to colonise a freshly formed lava flow (Photo: Ingrid Smet)

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Marum lava lake in July 2014 (Photo: Yashmin Chebli)

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The trunk of a dead tree at the beach of Rakata island. (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer)

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Close up of part of an eruptive fissure on the slopes of Erta Ale shield volcano (Photo: Stefan Tommasini)

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Eruption from NE crater and glowing central and western vents. (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer)

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Pahena beach (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer) [info]
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A large pumice flow deposit and deeply cut gorge in the sea cliff near Papafrangos. (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer)

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